Rankers Physics
Topic: Electrostatics
Subtopic: Electric Potential

Assertion (A): When an isolated charged body is connected to earth, all its charge flows to earth and it becomes electrically neutral.
Reason (R): Electric potential of earth is non zero, so the body connected to earth should also attain zero potential.
 
Both (A) & (R) are true and the (R) is the correct explanation of the (A)
Both (A) & (R) are true but the (R) is not the correct explanation of the (A)
(A) is true but (R) is false
Both (A) and (R) are false

Solution:

Assertion (A) is true as charges flow to earth. Reason (R) is false because earth's potential is considered zero.

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